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Photo of Prof. Lewin swinging on a pendulum.

Professor Walter Lewin demonstrates that the period of a pendulum is independent of the mass hanging from the pendulum. This demonstration can be viewed on the video of Lecture 10. (Image courtesy of Markos Hankin, Physics Department Lecture Demonstration Group).

 

LEC#TOPICS
 Course Introduction
1Powers of Ten - Units - Dimensions - Measurements - Uncertainties - Dimensional Analysis - Scaling Arguments
21D Kinematics - Speed - Velocity - Acceleration
3Vectors - Dot Products - Cross Products - 3D Kinematics
43D Kinematics - Free Falling Reference Frames
5Circular Motion - Centrifuges Moving - Reference Frames - Perceived Gravity
6Newton's Laws
7Weight - Perceived Gravity - Weightlessness Free Fall - Zero Gravity in Orbit (misnomer)
8Friction
9Exam Review
10Hooke's Law - Springs - Simple Harmonic Motion - Pendulum - Small Angle Approximation
11Work - Kinetic Energy - Potential Energy - Conservative Forces - Conservation of Mechanical Energy - Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation
12Non-Conservative Forces - Resistive Forces - Air Drag - Terminal Velocity
13Potential Energy - Energy Considerations to Derive Simple Harmonic Motion
14Escape Velocities - Bound and Unbound Orbits - Circular Orbits - Various Forms of Energy - Power
15Momentum - Conservation of Momentum - Center of Mass
16Collisions - Elastic and Inelastic - Center of Mass Frame of Reference
17Impulse - Rockets
18Exam Review
19Rotating Rigid Bodies - Moment of Inertia - Parallel Axis and Perpendicular Axis Theorem - Rotational Kinetic Energy - Fly Wheels - Neutron Stars - Pulsars
20Angular Momentum - Torques - Conservation of Angular Momentum - Spinning Neutron Stars - Stellar Collapse
21Torques - Oscillating Bodies - Hoops
22Kepler's Laws - Elliptical Orbits - Satellites - Change of Orbits - Ham Sandwich
23Doppler Effect - Binary Stars - Neutron Stars and Black Holes
24Rolling Motion - Gyroscopes - VERY NON-INTUITIVE
25Static Equilibrium - Stability - Rope Walker
26Elasticity - Young's Modulus
27Fluid Mechanics - Pascal's Principle - Hydrostatics - Atmospheric Pressure - Over Pressure in Lungs and Tires
28Hydrostatics - Archimedes' Principle - Fluid Dynamics - What Makes Your Boat Float? - Bernoulli's Equation
29Exam Review
30Simple Harmonic Oscillations - Energy Considerations - Torsional Pendulum
31Forced Oscillations - Normal Modes - Resonance - Natural Frequencies - Musical Instruments
32Heat - Thermal Expansion
33Kinetic Gas Theory - Ideal Gas Law - Isothermal Atmosphere - Phase Diagrams - Phase Transitions
34The Wonderful Quantum World - Breakdown of Classical Mechanics
35Farewell Special - High-energy Astrophysics

 








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